The number of homicides in Jacksonville is up nearly 27% this year from last, according to News4JAX records.
“I watch mothers who don’t leave their homes who completely isolate, who just lose their will to live,” she said.
AJ Jordan, the outreach coordinator with the MAD DADS Jacksonville Chapter, says hearing of the increase in homicides means the organization has more work to do.But he says others in the community also have more work to do to get the homicide rate down and make the community safer. “We need more people out there. We need our city officials to come out more — the sheriff, the mayor, city council
— and we just all need to be out there together ... on a consistent continued basis so the community will know that we care,” Jordan said. Jordan also says he has been in talks with city officials to go throughout all neighborhoods with MAD DADS to let their presence be known and to hopefully help drive home the point that Jacksonville is not a place where this many homicides need to happen.Copyright 2022 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.
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